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Bag’s Take-Away:
Two weddings, two wedding pictures taken at inopportune moments (depending on how you look at it).
I have more hope for the couple in front of the tornado.
Top photo via Time Newsfeed
Bottom photo via NBC Today Show
(Top photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images caption: Newly married couple Tim and Beth Alberts get caught-up in a protest in downtown Chicago on the eve of the NATO summit on May 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Bottom photo credit: Cate Eighmey Photography caption: Kansas couple catches tornado in wedding photo. When Candra and Caleb walked down the aisle for the first time together as husband and wife, the bride, a Nebraska native, also saw her very first tornado, and the photographer snapped her first wedding twister.)
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A shocking photo. FEMEN members with their shirts on, not off.
(credit: Gleb Garanich/Reuters caption: Activists of Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen (L-R) Yana Zhdanova, Alexandra and Inna Shevchenko, and Oksana Shachko sit in their office in Kiev May 18, 2012.The topless activists of Femen, whose eye-catching antics have made them the cover girls of international feminist protest, are shouting loud and clear that their attendance at next month’s Euro-2012 soccer tournament - welcome or not - can be counted on.)
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Pikachu is very disappointed in you. A child’s backpack surveys the scene of his owner’s detention at NATO summit demonstrations in Chicago.
(credit: Andrees Latif/Reuters caption: A protester lies detained after clashing with police during the start of the NATO Summit in Chicago May 20, 2012. Baton-swinging police officers clashed with anti-war protesters at the start of the NATO summit on Sunday, beating some and dragging others away.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
This photo of a foreclosed home occupied by squatters in LA really makes you shake your head. Rather than helping homeowners with their mortgages, banks leave vacant foreclosed homes to the mercy of vandals. Then they sell the property at a fire sale price. Kick out the owners, fail to maintain it, get rid of it cheap. No wonder the economy sucks.
(credit: Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters caption: A bedroom at a foreclosed home where squatters have been living is seen during a blight tour that activists say highlight how big banks are hurting local communities by failing to maintain their foreclosed properties in Los Angeles, California, May 17, 2012. Activists are calling on city leaders to enforce LA’s blight ordinance that allows the city to collect $1,000 a day from banks that do not maintain their foreclosed homes, which activists say should be used to rebuild the neighborhoods.)
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A photograph of the deceased is sadly incorporated into the grieving of his family. Since the start of the Arab Spring, funerals are depicted in every news gallery nearly every day. I can’t think of many photographs that bring a country’s culture of mourning so close to the viewer as this one does. The hand of the woman with the blue sleeve seems as if it is holding up the visor of the young man who passed.
(photo: Mohammed Asad/AP Photo caption: Egyptian women mourn over the death of victims of clashes outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday. Suspected supporters of Egypt’s military rulers attacked predominantly Islamist anti-government protesters outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo Wednesday, setting off clashes that left more than ten people dead as political tensions rise three weeks before crucial presidential elections.)
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Occupy teams with AIDS activists in a New York protest. We’ve all been looking for what the Occupy movement will come up with for warmer weather and perhaps, judging by this photo and its caption, Occupy will occupy all other social justice causes. it will certainly boost their membership and reception.
(credit: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters caption: The police arrested a protester Wednesday near the New York Stock Exchange during a rally by AIDS activists and members of the Occupy Wall Street movement.)
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April 29, 2012 will be the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. I was there and remember the violence, fear, curfew, and the smell of smoke as portions of the city burned. Can’t answer for the graffiti depicted below. It could have been written by a person with any one of various viewpoints about the riot.
(credit: Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times caption: Los Angeles — A shopping mall goes up in flames at La Brea Avenue and Pico Boulevard, where someone spray-painted a statement about violence.)
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A walking billboard for pain and revolution: a Bahraini protester wears a t-shirt emblazoned with the image of a mortally wounded citizen journalist at the journalist’s funeral.
(credit: Hasan Jamali/AP Photo caption: Bahraini anti-government protesters prepare carries petrol bombs for clashes with riot police Monday, April 16, 2012, in Salmabad, Bahrain, after a traditional mourning procession for citizen journalist Ahmed Ismail al-Samadi, 22. Al-Samadi, seen in the image on the protester’s t-shirt at center just after he was shot, was killed about two weeks ago while filming clashes between protesters and riot police.)
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I saw this in yesterday’s Lens Blog “Pictures of the Day.” New York Times photographer Marcus Yam captures a sleeping Occupy protester shortly before a police confrontation over sidewalk space.
Viewing it in my news reader, I had to click through just to confirm that the photo, and the Occupy action, came from yesterday instead of last Fall. Not sure if there’s any message here about dormancy.
via The New York Times Lens Blog
(credit: Marcus Yam/The New York Times caption: Police officers and Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been camped out near the New York Stock Exchange faced off. Before the confrontation, some of the protestors slept on the sidewalk at the intersection of Nassau Street and Wall Street.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
These frames of Israeli army Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner attacking an unarmed, Danish, pro-Palestinian protester in the West Bank are clearly the “money shots,” the isolated electronic views of the offending act currently pinging around the globe. The frames instants earlier, however, depicting “state of mind,” hold as much significance for me.
The screen shots vividly illustrate that moment in the head of a seething man — it’s hard not to feel a chill in the looking for trouble and those crazy eyes — when a switch suddenly flips and he goes off.
With this living example from a protester’s camera, what you can’t help but be painfully aware of also — retrospectively as well as prospectively — is how the slightest combination of tension, frustration and fear can lead to the highly potent Israeli army lashing out. It’s no doubt a black day for hard-line Israel in the eyes of the world. Perhaps we can also “appreciate,” however (whether the background is Israel or Kabul or Fort Bragg, a poker game, a marriage or a school yard), how the slow-motion here throws a focus on all the Eisners in the world.
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(video stills: LIKMA38, via YouTube)
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